You are not big enough to accuse the whole age effectively, but let us say you are in dissent. You are in no position to issue commands, but you can speak words of hope. Shall this be the substance of your message? Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God. --Thomas Merton

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Good Spread and the Manabego Explosion

While at Pepperdine I got to have a great conversation with Mark Moore, CEO and Founder of MANA Nutrition.

I wrote about MANA last fall when the Manabago came to visit ACU. MANA Nutrition is an organization that makes and provides RUTF--Ready to Use Therapeutic Food--which is designed specifically to
treat kids diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). RUTF is fortified peanut butter that is given over a six- to eight-week period (three MANA packets a day) to bring a SAM child back from the brink of death.

To help raise awareness about MANA, RUTF, and SAM Alex Cox and Mark Slagle got in a 1971 Winnebego--affectionately named the Manabego--to tour the country. Alex, Mark and Manabego visited ACU last fall and allowed my boys and I to go inside and check out their sweet ride.

Unfortunately, at Pepperdine Mark informed me that, later in the trip, the Manabego blew up. Right outside the Pepperdine campus. Footage below.

Undaunted, Mark and Alex continued their tour, hitchhiking to each stop to keep spreading the word.

And there is more. Mark and Alex have now started a company--Good Spread. Good Spread works with a "buy one, give one" model. Buy a packet of Good Spread peanut butter for yourself or your family and you buy a packet of MANA for SAM child.